Another round of new names, strong performances dot the list of POWs

You’ve heard of many of them, but the nation’s NCAA Division I women’s college volleyball conferences honored quite a few players not always in the spotlight.

Like Air Force sophomore outside Denise Ssozi or Sacramento State junior outside Mikaela Nocetti or ETSU junior middle Braedyn Tutton or FGCU outside Cortney Vanliew, who was her league’s POW and top freshman.

Two players with the first names of Mikaela won POW honors in their respective league and neither is Nebraska’s Mikaela Foecke.

Two others, both with the last names Otero, won in their respective leagues.

You can look forward every Tuesday to the VolleyballMag.com roundup of the POWs around the country.

POWs, of course, are players of the week, and we will do our best to list the honorees from all 32 Division I conferences here.

ACC
Player of the week: Miami junior setter Haley Templeton
Freshman: Pittsburgh outside hitter Kayla Lund
Worth noting: Templeton had 92 assists in two road wins, including 61 at Duke. She had nine kills, hit .500 and had 23 digs, four blocks and two aces. Lund had 17 kills and hit .344 to go with 13 digs and four blocks in two road wins.The complete ACC release

American Athletic
Offensive: Temple senior right side Izzy Rapacz
Defensive: Wichita State libero Giorgia Civita
Worth noting: Rapacz averaged 4.62 kills and hit .448 in two wins, while Civita won the defensive honor for the third time this season after averaging 6.29 kills.The complete American Athletic release

Big South
Player of the week: Campbell sophomore outside hitter Allena Heath
Defensive: High Point freshman libero Abby Bottomley
Freshman: Liberty setter Amaya Williams
Worth noting: Heath averaged 5.86 kills in two victories added 3.29 digs. Bottomley had 39 digs in two matches, while Williams had 116 assists, 16 digs and four blocks in three matches.The complete Big South release

Big Sky
Offensive: Sacramento State junior outside Mikaela Nocetti
Defensive: North Dakota senior middle Faith Dooley
Worth noting: Nocetti had a big week as she averaged 5.86 kills, 3.86 digs and .57 blocks in two victories while hitting .400. Dooley had 14 more blocks in two matches and ranked second in the NCAA in total blocks with 134, 24 solo.The complete Big Sky release

Missouri Valley
Player of the week: Missouri State senior outside Lily Johnson
Defensive: Missouri junior libero Emily Butters
Freshman: Missouri State middle Gillian Gergen
Worth noting: After winning at Drake and Northern Iowa and taking over the lead in the league it was all Missouri State. Johnson had 50 kills and 50 digs in the two matches. Accordingly, she was also named the AVCA POW. Butters averaged 7.44 digs, while Gergen had 11 blocks in the wins to go with 16 kills and seven digs.The complete Valley release

Mountain West
Offensive: Air Force sophomore outside Denise Ssozi
Defensive: Air Force freshman middle Kathleen Medill
Worth noting: Ssozi averaged 4.29 kills in two wins and also had three assists, two aces and hit .333. Medill had 15 blocks, one solo, in those matches.The complete Mountain West release